Yesterday, the ladies 
on my computer team bought my lunch and brought a great Papa Smurf cake to the lunch room for my “going away” gathering. It was a wonderful gesture on their part. The Zaxby’s was wonderful and the cake was awesomely decadent!
Technically, I am leaving at the end of the day today. Realistically, they haven’t hired a replacement for me yet, so I will keep working here a few days over the next couple of weeks while the job is filled. I’m saying goodbye to students today. They will be surprised to see me again in a few days.
A few years back, my right-hand person on my team began calling me Papa Smurf. She said it was because I am the problem solver on the team. I think it also had something to do with being old and overweight, but she’s not admitting to that.
I think in a way, Papa Smurf is who I have always been. I have always been the problem solver for others (as if I don’t have any of my own). I will stop working on my own projects to help someone else complete theirs. It isn’t that my project doesn’t get done. It does. It just gets done when I would usually be asleep.
Now I get to be Papa Smurf to all of the secondary schools in our district.
I think I need a shirt with a Papa Smurf logo.